too buoyant underwater camera rig

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Hello,

I recently got a Sony A5100 with housing (meikon), tray & two handles (flex-arm.com) and 2 cheap e-bay lights.

The whole rig is quite/very positively buoyant. How can I make it more neutral? Obviously I need to add weight but how?

All the other threads I fount were about how to make negative rigs more positive (floatings etc), but nothing on making it less buoyant. Any neat ideas?

Thanks in advance.


I found the same thing with my Canon G7X-II (Fantasea housing) and "vintage" SeaLife 961 strobe. My solution was a soft ankle weight. Advantages: lead is dense, it's already got plastic buckles, it's flexible enough to easily wrap around the strobe handle or tray. Disadvantage...seems expensive to buy & ship some lead shot, unless you find a very good deal on a used weight.
 
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